Pastoral Counseling and Christian Life Coaching
Faith-based support for emotional healing, spiritual care, relationship growth, personal direction, and practical life change.
Many people arrive carrying weight they cannot easily name. There is anxiety that does not let up, burnout that no amount of rest seems to resolve, and relationship strain that has worn grooves into daily life. There is grief, spiritual discouragement, the pressure of hard decisions, and the disorientation that comes with life in transition.
What many people need in these seasons is not always a clinical label, but grounded support. Support that takes both faith and emotional reality seriously. Support that speaks plainly, walks steadily, and points toward what is true.
Bruce A. Louis, MA, LMHCA offers pastoral counseling and Christian life coaching for individuals, couples, and those navigating leadership pressure, personal change, and relational strain. Services are available in Richmond, Virginia and online. Pastoral counseling and Christian life coaching are faith-based, non-clinical services focused on spiritual care, emotional support, personal growth, relationship support, and practical life direction.
Pastoral Counseling
Pastoral counseling is a faith-based, non-clinical form of support. It is not psychotherapy and does not involve diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders. Instead, it draws from Scripture, prayer, spiritual direction, and honest conversation about the burdens a person is carrying.
Pastoral counseling with Bruce addresses anxiety, emotional overwhelm, burnout, grief and loss, spiritual discouragement, marriage and relationship concerns, forgiveness, identity, life transitions, personal restoration, and the need for steady direction during difficult seasons.
This is pastoral care rooted in spiritual conviction and emotional honesty. It meets people in real difficulty and walks with them through suffering, transition, conflict, and personal struggle with compassion, truth, and grounded support.
Fees and Session Rates
Pastoral Counseling
$125 per 50-minute session
Sessions are available online through secure video conferencing for individuals seeking faith-based, non-clinical support, spiritual care, emotional support, and personal guidance.
4-Session Pastoral Support Package — $475
Designed for individuals seeking more consistent support through a difficult season, ongoing emotional strain, spiritual discouragement, grief, relationship stress, or major life transition.
8-Session Pastoral Restoration Package — $900
A more structured pastoral counseling format for individuals needing deeper ongoing support, steady guidance, emotional rebuilding, spiritual strengthening, and practical direction over time.
3-Month Pastoral Care Partnership — Custom Structured Plan
An extended pastoral counseling format for individuals seeking sustained spiritual care, emotional support, accountability, and consistent guidance through prolonged personal, relational, or spiritual difficulty. Details are discussed during consultation to determine fit and structure.
All sessions are available online via secure video.
Christian Life Coaching
Christian life coaching is forward-focused support centered on growth, structure, and intentional change. It does not approach people through diagnosis or clinical treatment. Instead, coaching begins with where a person is now, where they want to go, and what may be preventing healthy movement forward.
Christian life coaching with Bruce focuses on direction and purpose, accountability, emotional resilience, communication and relationship development, spiritual growth, decision-making, healthier habits, leadership growth, and building a more grounded and structured daily life.
Coaching is often helpful for people who are not in crisis but feel stuck, unfocused, discouraged, or ready for meaningful change. The work is practical, intentional, spiritually grounded, and centered on helping people move forward with greater steadiness, responsibility, and understanding.
Fees and Session Rates
Christian Life Coaching
$100 per 50-minute session
Christian life coaching is forward-focused, faith-based support for individuals seeking direction, structure, accountability, and intentional growth. Sessions focus on where you are now, where you are trying to go, and what needs to be strengthened so you can move forward with greater steadiness and responsibility.
4-Session Growth Package
$375
Designed for individuals who need focused support around direction, emotional strengthening, communication, spiritual growth, accountability, and establishing healthier patterns. This package is a good fit for someone who feels stuck, unfocused, or ready to take practical steps toward meaningful change.
8-Session Intensive Growth Package
$700
Designed for individuals seeking more consistent support over time. This package allows space for deeper personal development, leadership growth, stronger decision-making, healthier habits, spiritual alignment, emotional resilience, and a more structured approach to daily life.
All sessions are available online through secure video conferencing.
Couples and Marriage Recovery
Marriage carries emotional, spiritual, and relational weight. When communication breaks down, trust has been damaged, or conflict continues repeating without meaningful resolution, couples often need structured support from someone who takes both their faith and their relationship seriously.
Bruce works with couples through a pastoral counseling framework focused on communication patterns, rebuilding trust after harm, emotional repair, relational responsibility, conflict dynamics, forgiveness and what genuine forgiveness requires, spiritual alignment as a couple, and practical application between sessions.
This process does not pressure couples into premature resolution or surface-level peace. The work is structured, honest, and grounded in the reality that lasting repair requires patience, accountability, humility, and consistent effort over time.
Fees and Session Rates
Marriage Recovery and Restoration
$150 per 60-minute session
Marriage recovery and restoration sessions are designed for couples facing communication breakdown, emotional disconnection, recurring conflict, trust damage, unresolved resentment, forgiveness struggles, and relational instability. Sessions focus on helping couples address underlying patterns honestly while rebuilding healthier communication, emotional understanding, relational responsibility, and spiritual alignment.
6-Session Marriage Recovery Package
$825 total
A structured recovery-focused package for couples needing consistent support through conflict repair, trust rebuilding, emotional reconnection, forgiveness work, and practical relational change between sessions.
12-Session Marriage Restoration Package
$1,575 total
Designed for couples working through deeper or longer-standing relational strain. This extended format allows greater attention to communication habits, emotional wounds, recurring conflict cycles, rebuilding trust, spiritual disconnection, and creating healthier long-term relational patterns.
3-Month Marriage Restoration Partnership
Custom Structured Plan
A more immersive support structure for couples seeking sustained pastoral guidance, consistent accountability, deeper restoration work, and intentional rebuilding over an extended season. Details are discussed during consultation to determine fit, structure, and goals.
All sessions are available in person in Richmond, Virginia, and online through secure video conferencing.
Fees and Session Rates
Pastoral Counseling
• Individual Session (50 Minutes): $125
• 4-Session Pastoral Support Package: $475
• 8-Session Pastoral Restoration Package: $900
• 3-Month Pastoral Care Partnership: Custom Structured Plan
Christian Life Coaching
• Individual Session (50 Minutes): $100
• 4-Session Growth Package: $375
• 8-Session Intensive Growth Package: $700
Marriage Recovery and Restoration
• Couples Session (60 Minutes): $150
• 6-Session Marriage Recovery Package: $825
• 12-Session Marriage Restoration Package: $1,575
• 3-Month Marriage Restoration Partnership: Custom Structured Plan
Session Availability
• Online sessions available through secure video conferencing
• In-person marriage recovery and restoration sessions available in Richmond, Virginia
• Consultation details and scheduling are discussed before services begin
Pastoral Counseling and Christian Life Coaching
Talk to Someone Today
You do not have to carry everything alone. Whether you are facing emotional strain, relationship conflict, spiritual discouragement, burnout, grief, or a difficult season of transition, support is available.
Pastoral counseling and Christian life coaching provide grounded, faith-based support for individuals, couples, and families seeking honest conversation, practical guidance, spiritual care, and meaningful direction forward.
Schedule a consultation today to begin the conversation.